GOVERNMENT HOUSE, SYDNEY
LORD DENMAN'S EVICTION. CASE BEING A*RGt7ED IN COURT. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 25th February. In tha Government House case, counsel for the Government contended that from the time of Governor Phillip any land taken possession of in the name of the King belonged to the colony by virtue of- any act of a Governor of the colony. Even before the passing of the Constitution Act it Would not have been competent for the King to take lands from the colony, except through the Governor. Tho sovereignty of the lands in question, and the proprietorial rights, were vested in the Governor. If there had been an infringement of the rights of the Imperial Government the matter would be for negotiation, not for litigation. Counsel- also claimed that the Governor was an Imperial officer, and was aware of what Ministers had done, yet he did not disapprove. It was conceivable that if the acts of his Ministers infringed Imperial rights he could have di&missed them. The Governor wae re-eponsible-te the King, and. therefore, the matter was outside the jurisdiction of the Court.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 7
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